Joëlle Tomb is an abstract painter, art advocate and curator based in Newton, MA. She was born in Lebanon and raised in Saudi Arabia and Canada, where she gained her Master’s in Education. Her grandfather, Maroun Tomb, was a prolific painter and her father Fouad Tomb is a modern Lebanese painter who dedicated his life to arts education. She served as a docent at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston for three years and facilitated various public art projects. She is currently the Board President of the New Art Centre and is on the Advisory board of ARCK (Art Resource Collaborative for Kids) and the Nearby Gallery. She also presides over the Fouad & May Tomb Foundation for the Arts, her family’s international art platform dedicated to preserving the family’s artistic heritage and to promoting art for humanity. Joëlle’s first solo exhibition took place in Newton City Hall (2019), and since then she has participated in several group shows locally and internationally. Her curatorial work includes, Mehswar “A Painter’s Return” (2022) at the Nearby Gallery in Newton, MA; Meshwar of an artist from Palestine to Lebanon: Dialogue between two generations Maroun & Fouad Tomb (2023) at Dar El Nimer for Arts & Culture in Beirut, Lebanon; and Aswat: Elevating Arab Women Voices (2023) at the New Art Center in Newton, MA.

Rula Khoury is an art curator, historian and art critic, currently based in Haifa. Khoury earned her Master’s degree in Art History from Haifa University (2011) and an additional Master in Writing Art Criticism from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2017). Khoury served as the General Director of the Arab Culture Association in Haifa (2020 ) and before that was the artistic director of the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah (2014). In 2014, as part of the Qalandiya International Biennale, she curated the Manam exhibition in Haifa, and the Mapping Procession, a happening event in the streets of Ramallah. Her art critique was published in various art magazines, such as Tohu Magazine, Arab 48, and Tribe Photo Magazine. Since 2010, Khoury has been an instructor and advisor in higher education institutions and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, the International Academy of Art in Ramallah and the Oranim College near Haifa.

Haidi Motola is a visual artist and a doctoral student at the Academy of Fine Arts of Uniarts Helsinki. Her research focuses on archives, memory and political imagination in the colonial context. Since 2016, she has been a member of Activestills, a collective of documentary photographers, whose work focuses on decolonial struggles in Palestine. Over the years, she has been involved in various art and activist initiatives, including, recently, with Bedouin women living in unrecognized villages in the Naqab.